Healing and Rehabilitation

World War One had a huge impact on both countries
and many men returned home needing ongoing treatment.

At a time when New Zealand’s population was
around 1.1 million, almost 100,000 – or 42% of men of military age – served with
the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Around 18,000 died in, or because of, the
war and some 41,000 were wounded.

The Australian population during World War One was approximately 4.9 million and
416,809 men aged 18 to 44 years enlisted. This represented 38% of the male
population. Altogether 60,000 were killed and another 156,000 wounded, gassed
or taken prisoner.